AGRICOLA's new Interface

AGRICOLA is no longer available via the OCLC search interface. Now our AGRICOLA link on the WMU Libraries web site connects to the USDA National Agriculture Library's (NAL's) interface. Although the interface is different, the content available to search is basically the same.

The main difference with the new interface is how it performs searches. For example, the new interface Boolean operators (i.e., AND, OR, NOT) generally are not used, and multiple words are searched as a phrase. For more tips on how to search, see the Search Options: Simple Search or the Search Options: Advanced Search.

Curious about which journals are indexed in AGRICOLA? See the Journals Indexed in AGRICOLA page and browse the complete list or search for a particular title.

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Web of Science Now has Direct Export to RefWorks

Western Michigan University of Web of Science now can directly export citations from Web of Science to RefWorks, a citation management software.

A "Save to RefWorks" button (right) now appears on the search results page for users of the WMU subscription to Web of Science. The University Libraries asked that Thomson Reuters add the button to WMU's Web of Science interface, since the button will be added only if an institution specifically requests it.

With the new button, users now can export citations into RefWorks with one mouse click instead of several, separate steps.

What is RefWorks? It is a software -- available for free to all faculty, staff, and students at Western Michigan University -- that allows users to store and organize citations, store PDFs of articles and other works, and easily create formatted bibliographies.

How do you access it? There's a link to RefWorks from the Libraries web site -- go the the "R" page of Library databases, and scroll down the alphabetical list to "RefWorks" and click the RefWorks link.

For more info on how to use RefWorks, see our page of RefWorks screen cast tutorials, or contact me.


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Standards Database Now Available

The libraries now subscribes to IHS Standards Expert, an online database containing citations for over a million standards from over 370 standards organizations, ranging from the the Aluminum Association (AA) to the Wire Reinforcement Institute (WRI). The database can be searched by keywords, standard number, and organization.

Although this database allows users to conduct one search amongst many standards organization -- a great improvement -- users must contact our engineering librarian, Ed Eckel to obtain the actual standards.


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